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Two before court over visa fraud

Two before court over visa fraud

Source: GNA

Date: 12-01-2019 Time: 09:01:56:am

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An Accra Circuit Court on Friday granted bail to two persons in the sum of ¢25,000.00 each with three sureties each for allegedly defrauding five persons of ¢21,200.00 under the pretext of securing them visas.

According to the court each one of the sureties should be gainfully employed.

She said the accused are residents of Dansoman in Accra and that between the months of May and December 2018, Anderson asked Wellington and Amponsah that he could secure visas to people interested in travelling to Belgium and Canada to work.

The Prosecution said Wellington and Amponsah brought the complainants to Anderson whereby Wellington then bargained with Asare and Vida to part with a total sum of $8,000 each for the entire deal upon which the two made an initial deposit of GH¢3,000.00 each.

She said Wellington also took their passports to be used in processing the visas.

She said with the assistance of Wellington and Amponsah, Anderson also succeeded in collecting ¢3,000.00, from Quarcoo, ¢2,000.00, from Ofori-Atta, ¢2,500.00, from Doreen, all to the tune of ¢13,500.00 on the same premise.

DSP Adizatu said Anderson gave the victims between one to three months to deliver the visas but failed.

She said Anderson also gave the phone numbers of the complainants to Dadzie who asked them to pay ¢5,200.00 each for their plane tickets.

The Prosecution said Doreen paid ¢5,200.00 whilst Vida paid ¢2,500.00, to Dadzie for the said tickets.

She said in all, ¢21,200.00 was paid to the accused persons and their accomplices.

She said later Anderson returned the passports of Quarcoo, Ofori-Atta and Asare to them without the visas and went into hiding.

The prosecution said on January 8, this year, Ofori-Atta lured Anderson, arrested and handed him over to the Police at Dansoman.

She said Wellington was later spotted at the Dansoman Police Station and was also apprehended.